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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Key West, FL
NWS Key West, FL issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 2007, 8:20 AM EST for Monroe County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2007, 8:20 AM EST (13:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2007, 8:50 AM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Key West, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, FL
The radar
The Key West radar (KBYX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Key West, FL (KEYW), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 96 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KKEY 121322 TORKEY FLC087-121320- /O.NEW.KKEY.TO.W.0001.070212T1320Z-070212T1350Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL 820 AM EST MON FEB 12 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN KEY WEST HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MIDDLE KEYS IN MONROE COUNTY IN FLORIDA UPPER KEYS IN MONROE COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 850 AM EST * AT 816 AM EST...OUR RADAR DETECTED A WATERSPOUT JUST SOUTH OF LONG KEY...DRIFTING NORTH. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE MILE MARKER 66 AND 67...THE EDGEWATER LODGE...LONG KEY STATE PARK AND THE LONG KEY VIADUCT. WATERSPOUTS THAT MOVE ONSHORE ARE DANGEROUS AND CAN BE DEADLY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY LAT...LON 2467 8079 2476 8066 2497 8083 2486 8093 $$ DFM/APA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Key West, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 12:31 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 29 min | |
| Feb 12, 2:31 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 59 min | |
| Feb 12, 3:34 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 56 min | |
| Feb 12, 4:26 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 64 min | |
| Feb 12, 6:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 66 min | |
| Feb 12, 7:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 8:13 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 62 min | |
| Feb 12, 8:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | KEY | Monroe | 30 min |
| Feb 12, 8:49 AM EST | Tornado Warning | KEY | Monroe | 16 min |
| Feb 12, 9:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 10:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 10:25 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 65 min | |
| Feb 12, 11:14 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 12:14 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 61 min | |
| Feb 12, 2:18 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | KEY | 45 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.